Remote - Software Development Engineer in Testing (SDET)

Role - Software Development Engineer in Testing (SDET)
About the Company
Logistiq is a new business startup inside Landmark Group to build global logistics products to solve shipping problems. It is part of Landmark Group which is one of the largest retail and hospitality organizations in the Middle East, Africa and India. We’re always on the lookout for new talent to strengthen our team and we seek professionals who are excited at the chance to do their life’s best work every day.
What are we looking for?
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET) to join our engineering team to drive our product quality and reliability. If you are keen to be part of a growing Logistics Tech business backed by a kickass engineering team; you are eyeing the right opportunity. We hire engineers, who love to break the monotony of their own stack and love experimenting with latest tech trends to be able to up the game always.
The SDET will be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing automated testing solutions to ensure the highest quality of our software products. This role requires a strong background in software development, as well as a passion for quality and continuous improvement. You will research and develop quality assurance practice in support of business cases and systems requirements over the course of software development lifecycles.
While we value tremendously problem-solving skills, we value even more problem finding skills. People who have risen the fastest in our company are those that have a keen eye for detecting critical business problems and then solving them. Our work culture is overachiever, very amiable, and at the same time always charged with excitement
Job Location: Remote, India
Key Responsibilities:
1. Test Automation and Performance Development:
○ Design, develop, and maintain automated test frameworks and test scripts.
○ Collaborate with software developers to understand architecture and design, ensuring testability.
○ Create and manage automated test suites for regression, performance, and scalability testing.
2. Manual Testing:
○ Perform manual testing for new features and enhancements when automation is not feasible.
○ Identify, document, and track software defects and issues.
○ Execute functional, regression, and system-level testing.
3. Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD):
○ Integrate automated tests into the CI/CD pipeline.
○ Ensure automated tests are executed as part of the build process.
○ Work closely with DevOps to optimize testing environments and processes.
4. Quality Advocacy:
○ Act as a quality advocate within the development team, promoting best practices in testing and quality assurance.
○ Provide feedback and recommendations to developers during the design and implementation phases.
○ Participate in code reviews to ensure testability and adherence to quality standards.
5. Test Planning and Strategy:
○ Ensure that the application is high-quality by building product strategy, writing test plans, and communicating with the team about issues, risk, and product quality.
○ Develop comprehensive test plans and strategies for new features and releases.
○ Identify and mitigate risks associated with software changes and releases.
○ Ensure thorough test coverage and traceability.
○ Help ensure releases adhere to deadlines while not compromising on quality.
○ The ideal candidate will be a quick learner and be able to work independently. He/she should be able to operate in a very fast paced environment.
6. Documentation:
○ Document test cases, test results, and defects.
○ Maintain detailed and accurate test documentation for future reference and audits.
Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in software engineering, computer science, information technology, information systems, or similar.
• 3+ years of experience as an SDET, QA Engineer, or Software Developer with a focus on testing.
• Must have performance, Scalability, Stress tests and Security Testing skills
• Strong programming skills in languages such as Java, Python,K6 Typescript or JavaScript.
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks (e.g., Selenium, Appium, TestNG, JUnit, NUnit).
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools and processes (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI).
• Solid understanding of software development methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum).
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.
• Collaborate with Developers, Business and multiple global stakeholders to drive QA
• Knowledge around writing basic queries and databases like PostGreSQL, MySQL.
• Demonstrated experience in test planning, test design, and test execution of highly complex systems. Should own the quality and timeliness of delivery
• Understanding of QA methodologies, life cycle and processes.
• Hands-on for end-to-end testing including back-end and front-end applications.
• Ability to use a wide variety of open source and in house technologies and tools, that are DevOps enablers such as Docker, Maven, Jenkins, GiTHub etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with performance and load testing tools (e.g., JMeter, LoadRunner).
• Knowledge of cloud-based testing environments (e.g., Google Cloud, AWS, Azure).
• Familiarity with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Understanding of security testing practices and tools.